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Continuing education yoga teacher training track for therapists wishing to integrate psych-sensitive yoga into private practice and understand the clinical applications of yoga
Teaching Psychologically Sensitive Yoga for Therapists (YTT + 12 CEUs)
This 225-Hour Teaching Training Program is uniquely designed for clinicians seeking to integrate trauma-informed, body-based practices into their clinical work. This program explores the intersection of yoga and mental health with a strong emphasis on trauma informed clinical application, cultural sensitivity, and somatic awareness.
Clinicians will gain foundational skills and understanding in teaching trauma sensitive yoga, psychological application of the roots of yoga philosophy, somatic techniques to support emotional regulation, and therapeutic relevance for diverse populations. The following modules provide CEUs and focus on enhancing clinical skills with embodied application and tools.
Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (3 hours): Understanding the neurobiology of trauma and the clinical rationale for trauma-informed yoga practices.
Mental Health First Aid (3 hours): Evidence-based approaches to identifying and supporting individuals in crisis.
The Heart of Yoga (Book Talk, 1 hour): Read text and discuss the teachings of yoga philosophy within clinical and therapeutic relationships.
Yoga for Queer Bodies (3 hours): Culturally responsive practices that affirm LGBTQIA+ clients in therapeutic and yoga spaces.
The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga (Book Talk, 1 hour): Read text and discuss clinical considerations and intersections of accessible yoga and therapy practices.
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga (Book Talk, 1 hour): Build confidence in scope of practice through exploration of the differences between a trauma informed public yoga class and trauma informed yoga tools in psychotherapy.
Learning Objectives for the Teaching Track:
Identify and apply core principles of trauma-sensitive yoga in clinical and group settings to support clients with trauma histories.
Recognize mental health crisis indicators and respond effectively using the Mental Health First Aid framework.
Integrate foundational yoga philosophy into therapeutic modalities to foster self-regulation, self-inquiry, and presence.
Adapt yoga practices for diverse bodies and identities, including queer and gender-diverse clients, through an affirming and inclusive lens.
Demonstrate the ability to lead therapeutic yoga sequences that support emotional and physical safety, accessibility, and agency.
Critically evaluate the role of yoga in therapeutic contexts, considering ethics, scope of practice, and professional boundaries.
Cost: $3950 ($3700 YTT + $250 CEUs)
CEUs are available for Psychologists, Counselors, and Social Workerslicensed to practice in the state of Illinois. Continuing education credit is sponsored by Room to Breathe Psychotherapy and Yoga, an approved continuing education provider licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (License #197.000426)
CEUs
The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga Book Discussion
February 21st, 2027
9 am
with Hannah Lee, LCSW
This intimate book discussion is for clinicians to reflect on their previously held beliefs about accessibility and yoga, and to build skills to help clients access somatic practices as part of their coping skills and mental health work. Through exploration and application of Jivana Heyman’s book, The Teacher’s Guide to Accessible Yoga, participants will learn tenants of accessibility and trauma informed practice in yoga, and compare similarities and differences with their clinical work. Participants will be encouraged to question why practices such as yoga have been made inaccessible to populations such as those with physical limitations and/or those that experience systemic oppression in the United States. Participants will reflect on their own biases and assumptions of what “counts” as yoga and deepen their understanding of a tool that has been a healing tool for thousands of years, and increasingly integrated into mental health care in the United States in the last century.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the role of accessible yoga in improving mental health
Expand language and understanding of yoga accessibility in order to support clients in bridging the gap to additional mental health supports
Explore the similarities and differences of trauma informed yoga practice and mental health care
Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga Book Discussion
October 21st, 2026
7:30 pm
with Hannah Lee, LCSW
This intimate event is an opportunity for clinicians to engage with the seminal text, Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga, by David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper, PhD. Yoga is often touted as a tool for healing, but not all yoga is created equal in its capacity to heal trauma and support mental health. Through discussion and reflection, participants will engage with the authors’ guideposts for trauma sensitive yoga in order to better articulate to clients the role this tool can play in mental health support. Participants will have the opportunity to build confidence in their scope of practice through exploration of the differences between a trauma informed public yoga class and trauma informed yoga tools in psychotherapy. Participants will build knowledge of how to integrate body awareness into trauma healing in a community of like-minded learners.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the value of trauma sensitive yoga for mental health
Identify the elements of a trauma sensitive yoga class
Articulate the different applications of trauma sensitive yoga in the psychotherapy space vs. a yoga practice
Mental Health First Aid: Crisis Management Strategies
November 18th, 2026
5:30-8:30 pm
with Samantha Allweiss, LCSW
This is an interactive presentation that offers practical strategies for providing mental health first aid to friends, family members and neighbors who may be experiencing a mental health crisis. Participants will be encouraged to think about the systems of support available to community members and better identify their role when not in a clinical setting to prevent compassion fatigue/burnout around caring for others. Participants will also review case studies to help ground concepts and walk away with skills that will help them provide care to their community.
Learning Objectives:
Identify signs that someone is experiencing a mental health crisis: Determine what is within scope of care and when to refer out
Discuss alternatives to calling the police and how to de-escalate situations that necessitate police involvement
Identify signs compassion fatigue/burnout and strategies for implementing boundaries as care givers
Yoga for Queer Bodies
December 2nd, 2026
5:30-8:30 pm
with Nichole Brown and Sam Allweiss, LCSW
This interactive presentation connects participants with how they’ve experienced their gender, sexual orientation, and other identities along with how to support clients with queer/genderqueer identities. This training holds the radical belief that we all encounter identity work; through understanding ourselves, we have and hold greater understanding of how all humans have been implicated by system oppression and ‘otherness’. Clinicians will be encouraged to engage in reflections on their own life experiences, conditioning, and biases. This understanding will support in facilitating and creating welcoming spaces and reducing harm for genderqueer and queer folks and their bodies.
Learning Objectives:
Identify barriers that individuals (clients, other community members, yoga students) may encounter based on queer and genderqueer/trans identities.
Foster understanding for how somatic movement and mindfulness can have a greater impact in the work as a community member, provider, or yoga teacher for marginalized bodies.
Learn invitational and welcoming language and space-creation that encourages inclusion, connection, and build community with genderqueer and queer folks.
Teaching Trauma Sensitive Yoga
September 27th, 2026
1 pm - 4 pm
This is an interactive presentation and lecture on identifying the nuances of trauma on the human nervous system and the ways that larger, macro systems and environments implicate and impact the human body. Participants will be encouraged to explore how they have experienced systemic trauma, how trauma shows up in their body, and how their own nervous system responds. This information and knowledge will support the exploration, awareness, and understanding of how trauma shows up in the body. Additionally, this space will encourage the expansion and practical application of mindfulness and grounding skills for work with trauma.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the variety of subtle and immense ways that trauma shows up in the body and activates the nervous system.
Learn how to encourage and empower choice, connection, and autonomy with self and clients.
Explore somatic and mindfulness tools to settle and work with the nervous system (including the clinician’s own nervous system) and support the shift from sympathetic nervous system to parasympathetic nervous system.
The Heart of Yoga Book Discussion
September 30th, 2026
7:30 pm
with Hannah Lee, LCSW
This book discussion centers around The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar, a foundational text that bridges ancient yogic philosophy with practical application for modern life. In this session, clinicians will explore core teachings such as breath-centered movement, the role of personal practice, and the therapeutic relevance of concepts like sthira (steadiness) and sukha (ease).
Through guided dialogue, participants will reflect on how the philosophical roots of yoga—particularly those drawn from the Yoga Sutras—can inform and enrich the therapeutic relationship. Emphasis will be placed on the internal principles of yoga (such as presence, self-awareness, and compassion) rather than physical postures, making this material accessible and clinically relevant for therapists of all backgrounds.
This book talk is intended to deepen clinicians’ insight into the embodied and relational aspects of yoga philosophy, and support ethically-grounded integration within therapeutic settings.
Learning Objectives:
Identify key philosophical teachings from The Heart of Yoga that hold relevance within mental health and therapeutic frameworks.
Describe how principles such as sthira and sukha can inform therapeutic presence and client-centered care.
Reflect on the role of breath, intention, and mindfulness in clinical work through the lens of yoga philosophy.
Recognize how the teachings of the Yoga Sutras can support emotional regulation, self-awareness, and resilience in therapy.
Explore ways to integrate non-dogmatic, culturally respectful aspects of yoga philosophy into clinical conversations and embodied practices.